Mouse 2; Dad Zip

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Morning dawned to an empty mousetrap. I was still rubbing the sleep from my eyes when Dad again expressed his doubts about my sanity: “If there was a mouse in the house, I’d have already caught him. You didn’t see any mouse. It was all in your imagination.” “You think?” I asked, figuring that if … Read more

Mouse, 1; Dad, 0

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Dad set the mousetrap around 9 AM this morning. I was lazily lounging in the living room recliner with a book in my lap, half asleep and still in my PJ’s (at 3:50 PM), when I heard it. Craaack! The mousetrap had been sprung. I made Dad go and check it – I couldn’t bring … Read more

Of Mice And Men – Part One

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At 2 AM this morning, unable to sleep, I was sitting in the recliner in my Dad’s living room. The darkened room was illuminated only by the flickering TV. Suddenly, I caught a movement out of the corner of my eye. A bold mouse! He came around the corner from the kitchen and crawled along … Read more

It’s Good To Laugh

Christmas

My friend Julia emailed this to me today. some of you may have seen it, but I laughed so hard when I read it I thought it was too good not to share: The Christmas Pageant My husband and I had been happily married (most of the time) for five years but hadn’t been blessed … Read more

I Love My Dad

Honda car commercial

I was on the phone with Dad until midnight last night – he was trying to go to the links on my recent blog entry about the Honda car commercial and the fantastic machine, but he didn’t have the flash player he needed, so I walked him through it. We finally figured it out (hard … Read more